Adverse drug reaction and concepts of drug safety in Ayurveda: An overview

Adverse drug reaction and concepts of drug safety in Ayurveda: An overview.

Drug safety is a very basic and fundamental concept in medical practice. ADRs play an important role in assessing patient safety in any system of medicine. Pharmacovigilance study is thus significant to understand treatment outcomes. Current raised issue with respect to complementary and alternative system medicine (CAM) like Ayurveda is increased in number of safety reports along with report m...

An unusual adverse drug reaction?

INTRODUCTION Adult Still Disease (ASD) is a rare (incidence 1-1,6/1,000,000 in Europe) seronegative polyarthropathy diagnosed with clinical criteria, excluding other etiologies. Minocycline, a semisynthetic derivative of tetracycline, has been associated with many adverse effects. We present the case of a 18-years-old man with a high suspicion of an adverse drug reaction (ADR), that was finally...

An overview of adverse drug reactions.

An enormous number of drugs are introduced to the market every year and practically it is not feasible to avoid potential drug interactions. These drug interactions can lead to altered systemic exposure, resulting in disparities in drug response of the other co-administered drugs. Additionally, associated ingestion of dietary supplements, citrus fruit/juice could also change systemic exposure o...

Epidemiology of Severe Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reaction and Its HLA Association among Pediatrics

Severe cutaneous adverse drug reaction (SCAR) is considered to be a multifactorial drug side effect. This study was designed to investigate the epidemiology and human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A and -B gene polymorphisms in pediatric patients with SCAR admitted in tertiary referral center, southwestern of Iran from 2013 to 2017. Demographic data, past allergy and autoimmune history, clinical pres...

Adverse Reaction Newsletter 1999:1 National Drug Monitoring Centres - Drug Safety Issues